Our planned new hospital building at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) will include a new adults’ hospital, a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital, and one of the UK’s largest single site maternity and neonatal centre. Leeds is one of the largest providers of specialist hospitals services in the country so our new facilities will serve patients locally, regionally, nationally, and even in some cases internationally.
LTHT Hospital of the Future project
The UK’s fastest-growing city. Home to one of the largest and busiest acute trusts in the country. Delivering specialist treatment and care. To 1.6 million patients and every year across Leeds and beyond. The future of healthcare is evolving. Patients needs are changing. Medical advancements are accelerating. And our hospitals are ageing. We have a bold vision to transform healthcare for the future.
We will create a new state-of-the art hospital at our historical LGI site.
A new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital, A new adults’ hospital. One of the largest single-site maternity centres in the country. Designed for the future. Digitally enabled, meeting the highest sustainability’s standards. An award-winning design. But this is even more than healthcare. We are redeveloping our old hospital estate. To harness innovation and stimulate growth. Delivering 4,000 jobs and £13bn economic benefit. And the latest research and medical technology to our patients bedside. We have robust plans that deliver excellent value for public money. A cleared construction site and outline planning consent. We have patients that need our new hospital. We have patients that need our new hospital. Furthermore, we need an environment that reflects the world-class care we provide. We’re ready to go. Visit www.leedsth.nhs.uk to find out more.
This huge investment will produce a building designed to offer our patients modern, individual healthcare based on the most advanced treatments, technologies, innovation and research. It is an ambitious, long-term development that will change the way we think about hospital care.
A new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital
Leeds Children’s Hospital is currently one of the largest specialist hospitals for children and young people in the country. Over 80% of the services it delivers are specialist and it provides one of the most comprehensive ranges of paediatric services in the UK, including cancer treatment, transplantation and congenital heart surgery.
A new adults’ hospital
The new adults’ hospital will support patients across the care pathway, from those attending for an outpatient appointment or a day case surgical procedure to those needing our most advanced care and support to recover from critical illness or injury. As one of the country’s largest and leading hospital trusts, we are delighted by what the new hospital means for the health and wellbeing of the people of West Yorkshire, but this is about more than healthcare.
A new centralised maternity centre
For the first time in Leeds, a new maternity centre will incorporate a midwifery-led unit and co-locate all inpatient maternity and specialist neonatal services on one site and become one of the largest single-site maternity units in the UK. The new centre will support the delivery of approximately 10,500 babies a year from across Leeds and Yorkshire with all facilities co-located in one place. This will reduce the need for
mothers and ill babies being transferred or being separated at a crucial time when they need each other the most.
Our Progress
The new hospital development is a major part of our wider programme of healthcare improvement, and we have already made fantastic progress. Many of our enabling works are already complete and others are in development ready to support the construction of the new healthcare facilities.
Our Building the Leeds Way Programme Team has been working with architects, designers and leading global suppliers to shape our vision and complete the design for our new hospital. We will continue working closely with the Government’s New Hospitals Programme team, to realise our ambition and start building as soon as possible, because we are ready.
We are ready to deliver our Hospital of the Future and bring much needed new healthcare facilities to Leeds. We are ready to develop ground-breaking treatment for our patients.
Leeds Hospitals of the Future fly through
Leeds Teaching Hospital is one of the largest teaching hospitals in the country, and we’re planning to transform our healthcare facilities at Leeds General Infirmary with two new state-of-the-art hospitals for adults and children. We are one of the largest providers of specialist hospital services in the country, so our new hospitals will not only provide excellent patient care for the people of Leeds; they will improve the lives of people both regionally and nationally.
This striking building was inspired by the Yorkshire artist Henry Moore and houses two hospitals, one for adults and a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital. As well as a maternity and neonatal centre, as we move inside the new hospitals, it’s clear that they’re designed with patients in mind. The light-filled atrium will be a welcoming space from checking and finding to treatment and care.
Technology will support patients at every stage of their hospital journey. There will be places to sit, shop, eat, and drink, making it a relaxed and friendly destination for patients and visitors. Like panning around, you can see how the new hospitals will link to the current jubilee wing at Lee’s general infirmary, connecting the new building with existing theatres and wards.
Through the entrance and into the lifts, our amazing new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital brings together all our world-class paediatric treatment and services for children and young people under one purpose-built roof for the first time. It will be a place filled with light colour views and greenery with places to play or to relax, all designed to make patients and families feel entertained, distracted, and most importantly, to reduce anxiety.
All rooms in the hospital are single-patient rooms, offering families more privacy and the opportunity to have a better night’s sleep and rest. The landscaping and green spaces are such an important part of our design. The new terraces provide welcome outdoor spaces to sit, walk around, or play in, and ensure these new hospitals fully embrace the healing power of plants. We want to become one of the greenest hospital trusts in the UK, which is why we have put sustainability at the heart of our new hospitals. We have created a building that is sustainable by design in construction, and throughout its operational life, a new state-of-the-art maternity centre brings together inpatient maternity and specialist neonatal services on one site, which will become the largest single-site maternity unit in the UK.
There will be a new dedicated midwifery unit offering more choice for new mums and spacious maternity wards, all with ensuite single rooms that will offer privacy and a place for partners to stay in the adult hospital. New theatres for day case surgery will reduce the number of inpatient hospital stays, and there will be extra capacity in the critical care unit, allowing us to treat the most complex and ill patients.
Moving outside, a fantastic new plaza offers a green space where anyone can pause and connect with nature. There will be a new multi-story car park adjacent to the hospitals in addition to the current car park to provide patients with easy access to services. As part of the transformation of Leeds general infirmary, five hectares of land in existing buildings will be released for redevelopment. It is our ambition to create an innovation village, a vibrant trailblazing health research and technology community in the heart of the city, which will bring the latest advancements in medical technology closer to the bedside of patients and leads and contribute up to 11.2 billion pounds and 3000 new jobs to the regional economy.